Result of AGM

RNS Number : 9179S

Aberdeen Japan Investment Trust PLC

14 July 2015

 

ABERDEEN JAPAN INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

Result of Annual General Meeting

The Board announces that at the Annual General Meeting held at 10.30 am today, Tuesday 14 July 2015, at Bow Bells House, 1 Bread Street, London, EC4M 9HH, the Ordinary Resolutions numbered 1 to 9 and the Special Resolutions numbered 10 and 11, as set out in the Notice of Meeting within the 2015 Annual Report, were passed.

In relation to Resolution 11 (authority to purchase shares for cancellation or treasury), 14.99 per cent. of the Company's issued share capital equates to 2,187,276 Ordinary shares as at today's date.

The total number of proxy votes cast in relation to each Resolution was as follows:

	In Favour & Discretion		Against		Withheld
Resolution	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%
1	2,826,281	99.94%	1,355	0.05%	357	0.01%
2	2,794,529	98.82%	15,726	0.56%	17,739	0.63%
3	2,827,037	99.97%	957	0.03%	-	0.00%
4	2,821,050	99.75%	5,662	0.20%	1,281	0.05%
5	2,815,643	99.56%	10,111	0.36%	2,239	0.08%
6	2,815,886	99.57%	10,618	0.38%	1,489	0.05%
7	2,819,861	99.71%	6,851	0.24%	1,281	0.05%
8	2,810,294	99.37%	11,881	0.42%	5,819	0.21%
9	2,812,017	99.44%	6,617	0.23%	9,360	0.33%
10	2,809,464	99.34%	14,323	0.51%	4,207	0.15%
11	2,819,174	99.69%	6,463	0.23%	2,356	0.08%

Passing of Resolutions under Special Business

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of the Meeting set out in the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2015, copies of which are available on the Company's website, www.aberdeenjapan.co.uk*.

Copies of the special resolutions have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM *.

Enquiries:

Aberdeen Asset Management PLC

Secretary

Tel. [phone]

*Neither the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on that website (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement.

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